1929 in science fiction

The year 1929 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

• January 28 : Parke Godwin, American writer, (died 2013)[1]
• July 9 : Zheng Wenguang, Chinese writer, (died 2003)
• July 10 : George Clayton Johnson, American writer, (died 2015)[2]
• August 27 : Ira Levin, American writer, (2007)[3]
• October 1 : (in French) Demètre Ioakimidis, French writer and anthologist (died 2012)
• December 27 : Philippe Curval, French writer[4]

Events

• Creation of the American magazine Wonder Stories, edited by Hugo Gernsback.[5]

Literary releases

Novels

• (in French) Mond-Rak 1, by Otfrid von Hanstein.[6]
• (in Russian) The Air Seller by Alexander Belayev.

Short stories

• (in French) The last man, by Wallace West.[7]
• (in French) The Killing Flash, by Hugo Gernsback.[8]
• The Disintegration Machine, by Arthur Conan Doyle.[9]

Audiovisual outputs

Movies

• Woman in the Moon, by Fritz Lang.[10]
• High Treason, by Maurice Elvey.[11]

Awards

The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.

See also

• 1929 in science
• 1928 in science fiction
• 1930 in science fiction

References

1. "Authors : Godwin, Parke : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
2. "George Clayton Johnson, writer - obituary". Telegraph. 28 December 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
3. "Ira Levin". The Independent. 15 November 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
4. "Authors : Curval, Philippe : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
5. "Culture : Wonder Stories : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
6. Smith, Michael G. (2014). Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight. U of Nebraska Press. p. 394. ISBN 9780803255227.
7. "Authors : West, Wallace : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
8. "Authors : Gernsback, Hugo : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
9. Haynes, Roslynn D. (2017). From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture. JHU Press. p. 198. ISBN 9781421423050.
10. French, Philip (23 November 2014). "Woman in the Moon – Philip French on Fritz Lang's restored moon-mission yarn". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
11. "BFI Screenonline: Elvey, Maurice (1887-1967) Biography". www.screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2019.